[Verginius Rufus]

I've never heard of Roman Christians feeding any Nestorians to the lions. Nestorius was Patriarch of Constantinople from 428 to 431 and came out of the Syrian theological tradition. He got into trouble for objecting to calling Mary "Theotokos" (Mother of God) because, as he put it, "God is not a baby two or three months old." His enemies (especially St. Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria) got him removed as patriarch and exiled to a remote monastery.

His followers, the Nestorians, were mainly found in the Middle East (and some Christian groups in the Middle East today derive from them). I doubt anyone in Rome ever encountered any of them, let alone threw them to the lions.

[Vicomte13]

Come to think of it, I think that the Christians ended the arena business and feeding people to the lions and such, because it had been done to them so viciously.

If I remember right, there was some legal persecution (of course: there always is when things change), but the Christians didn't go for the Roman "mass-torture-as-public-entertainment" bit.